New and bigger traffic lights to be installed citywide
City engineers announce eleven new traffic signals will go up within two weeks in Frederick. Four at Frederick's Square and seven at intersections including Seventh, Thirteenth, Carroll, Jefferson, Dill, Upper College Terrace, West Church and Court, and West All Saints and Bentz. Red lenses move to top and all signals gain walk signs in amber. Cost about 1485 dollars plus installation. two new street lights planned first on Dill avenue and East Patrick street crossing.
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Frederick's
Elmer Sic. Maxwell
City
Harmon Staley
Maxwell
North Market Street
Seventh
Thirteenth Street
Patrick Street
Carroll
Jefferson Street
Dill Avenue
Upper College Terrace
West Church and
Court Streets
West All Saints and Bentz Streets
Staley
West College Terrace
Lindbergh Avenue
East Patrick Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
No Permit Charge Referred To Maryland PSC
Justice Walter E Sinn referred to the Public Service Commission a no permit charge against Wade Corun of Keymar who admits occasionally carrying extra passengers beyond his Frederick Keymar route. Corun holds a PSC permit for his commercial line and will seek guidance from the commission. Charlies Whitmore of Walkersville was dismissed from the charge and Earl B Holt of Woodsboro forfeited collateral on operating without a license.
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Walter E. Sinn
Public Service Commission
Wade Corun
Keymar
Walkersville
Corun
Frederick
Coran
Commission
W. E. May
Charlies W
Ruling on WPA pay rights for relief workers
Washington January 7 The Works Progress Administration announced that WPA workers on unemployment compensation would be ineligible for relief employment until unemployment benefits are exhausted. Acting WPA administrator Ibrey Williams said workers would be considered employed if they stayed on WPA rolls while seeking benefits.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Ibrey Williams
U S Presents Note On Missing Mrs Rubens in Moscow
The United States embassy in Moscow delivered a formal note to the Soviet Foreign Office asking if Ruth Marie Rubens of New York is under arrest and, if so, on what charges. Washington seeks full information on her disappearance from a Moscow hotel December 9. She arrived November 6 with “Donald L Robinson.”
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Moscow
United States
Soviet Foreign Office
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Russia
Washington
Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
State Department
Fissures Open in Pa Town Center Street
Frightened residents of Bradenville in Westmoreland county watched several fissures open in the village center after a night of cracking earth. The largest fissure spanned the main street eight to ten inches wide and appeared as a Greensburg firefighter examined it by flashlight. The tremor followed a day when revelers prepared a Greek Orthodox Christmas dance hall.
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Bradenville
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
Kennedy to Britain and Davies to Belgium Ambassadors
President Roosevelt named Joseph P. Kennedy to Berlin as ambassador to Great Britain and Joseph Davies to Belgium as ambassador to Russia. Hugh R. Wilson, then Assistant Secretary of State, is named ambassador to Germany, succeeding William E. Dodd who resigned. The changes announced at a White House press conference outline a broad reshuffle of diplomatic posts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
Federal Maritime Commission
Great Britain
Robert W. ‘Bingham
Kennedy
Joseph Davies
Russia
Belgium
Davies
Hugh Gibson
Senate
Hugh R. Wilson
Germany
Wilson
William E. Dodd
Gov Earle Takes His Son's Driver's Permit
Harrisburg AP reports Gov George H Earle took possession of his son Hubert's driver’s license for 90 days after he was cited for speeding in New Jersey. Hubert allegedly drove 50 mph on January 3, thinking New Jersey speed limits matched Pennsylvania. The governor said he learned of the incident after the license action.
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Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Hubert
New Jersey
Earle
Pennsylvania
Montgomery May Get Another Delegate
Maryland projections could grant Montgomery County an extra delegate in the House of Delegates if population growth holds. Dr Hedrich estimates July 1 population at 60 704, up from 39 310 last year, yielding six votes in the chamber.
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Montgomery County
Maryland
House of Delegates
Maryland State Health Department
A. W. Hedrich
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Mussolini Orders Two 39,000-Ton Battleships
Italy will immediately start constructing two 39,000-ton battleships named Roma and Imperio, with destroyers and many submarines planned. The ships will be built in Trieste and Genoa as part of a broad expansion of Italy's fleet amid Europe tensions.
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Haly
Rome
Italy
Europe
Mussolini
Roma
Imperio
Trieste
Genza
Three Rules for Farmer Success From L. J. Taber
Columbus, Jan. 7 AP. L. J. Taber, national Grange head, urges farmers to buy good land use modern machinery and engage in community life. He says education organization and cooperation are the three old weapons for a new rural life and notes a prosperous, not millionaire, farming future with yearly year-round work and strong leadership.
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Columbus
Ohio
L. J. Taber
Cooperative and Social Orange Organization
Grange
Jon
Srandstone
Landon Surges Ahead of Hoover in Republican Power Shuffle
Washington dispatch notes Alf Landon closing the gap with Herbert Hoover for party leadership. Landon rejects a 1940 G O P nomination yet pledges support to Roosevelt on international policy, boosting his standing while Hoover faces renewed questions about another bid.
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Republican News
Alf Landon
Hoover
Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Alf M. Landon
Herbert Hoover
Landon
Roosevelt
Landen
National Committee
Chicago
Congress
Executive Committee
Policy Committee
Glenn Frank
Dr. Frank
United States
London
St. Louis
Hig
NEA Service, Inc
British Officers Beaten by Japanese Soldiers in Shanghai
Major General A P D Telfer Smollett protested a Japanese attack on two British officers of the Shanghai municipal police near the British defense zone. Inspector F G West and Sgt A R Turner said Japanese troops beat them while raiding Chinese peddlers. Japanese censors seized foreign cable offices as twenty-four planes bombed Nanjing Airport.
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Shanghai
A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett
Sgt
A. R. Turner
West
Turner
Nanchang
Naval
Arrested As He Steps From An Automobile
Weddle, a Thurmont truck line operator, was arrested after alighting from a northbound car between Gettysburg and Harrisburg for a bad check. Deputy Shook, with help from Pennsylvania State Police, said Weddle tried to slip away in another vehicle. The bogus check for 65 dollars to Jack Plotnik of Baltimore in August paid for four used tires. Baltimore authorities planned to pick him up at the Frederick jail tonight.
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Gettysburg Pa
Harrisburg
E. F. Weddle
Thurmont
Frederick
Baltimore
Denver J. Shook
Maryland
Weddle
Shook
Pennsylvania
Jack Plotnik
Government Army Defeats Insurgents Near Teruel
The Spanish Government army gained a clear margin in the Teruel campaign near Concud north of Teruel. Government communiques claim complete defeat of insurgent troops as they attempted counter-offensives to reach Teruel from a strategic base at Valencia.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Concud
Valencia
Baltimore Truck Driver Is Killed In Snowbound Wreck
A Baltimore truck driver, 27 year old Joseph Soltesz, was killed when his coal truck overturned on the Mirror Hill slope near York Pennsylvania just after 3 a.m. Two other Baltimore men found the wreck and notified state police. The Goodwill Industries plan to build a highway plant is also mentioned in the sparse dispatch.
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Los Angeles
Goodwill Industries
York
Jari
Joseph
Soltesz
Baltimore
Mirror Hill
Pennsylvana State Police
Forlorn Christmas Trees Gathered by Frederick Garbage Crew
Sanitation officials report a multi night collection of discarded holiday evergreens in Frederick. About 3,000 trees are expected to be removed as crews work across the city, with some fuels incinerated and others burned in open lots. Final pickups run this week as public cooperation improves.
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Jesse W. Kolb
Albert A. Schroeder
Mr. Kolb
Carroll Creek
Monocacy River
Frederick
Hood College Vesper Speaker Dr Covert To Address Service
Dr Covert LLD of Philadelphia will speak at Hood College vesper service Sunday at four in Brodbeck Hall on The Gospel of Christ and the Totalitarian Philosophy. Hood President Dr Henry J Stahr will preside. Music under Henry T Wade includes Widor and Haydn selections with an organist choir.
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William Chalmers Covert
Philadelphia
Hood College
Brodbeck Hall
Henry J. Stahr
Hood
Covert
Hanover College
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Chicago
General Council of Presbyterian Churches
Henry T. Wade
Charles Marie Widor
Haydn
Ippolitoff Ivanoff
Godfrey Shaw
Shurtleff
Petersville Teen Sentenced To Nine Months In Prison
Ralph Scott, 17, of Petersville, after a brief Christmas release, returned to jail for lunch and now faces nine months in the Maryland House of Correction for guilty plea to stealing six dollars from Benjamin Franklin. Deputy Sheriff John R. Lloyd assisted.
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Ralph Scott
Petersville
Scott
Maryland House of Correction
William H. Campbell
Brunswick
Benjamin Franklin
John R. Lloyd
Did Not Take Post At Once During Fire Baltimore
Chief engineer Charles W. Simmons testified before a Bureau board that he did not go to his post immediately after the City of Baltimore caught fire last July 29. Three people died. Simmons and Capt. Charles O. Brookes and Albert Neil face negligence charges. Simmons said his station was the engine room and eight minutes elapsed before he activated sprinklers and began unreeling a hose. Federline remains at home with grippe and septic sore throat.
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Baltimore
Charles W. Simmons
City of Baltimore
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
Simmons
Charles O. Brookes
Albert Neil
Senate filibuster slows work in both houses
Washington AP reports a Senate filibuster by anti-lynching bill opponents slowed the chamber after an initial brisk start. Leaders warned the administration's program could be delayed, while House debate on the first appropriation bill moved slowly and conference talks on farm and housing measures remained far apart.
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Washington
Senate
House
Lighthouse keeper Nelson retires to hear fog horns
Peter Nelson, who tended California coast lighthouses for 45 years, has retired to Pacific Grove. He recalls setting the fog horns to bel low the fog and says he now lives there to hear the horns again in retirement.
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Monterey
Calif
Peter Nelson
California
Nelson
Pacific Grove
Flight of 300 planes, 24 ships hunt missing patrol bomber
San Pedro Calif January 7 AP three hundred navy planes and 24 warships hunted a giant patrol bomber missing since Wednesday with seven aboard. Cadet Seth Hawkins attached to the cruiser Chicago disappeared after a light plane incident about 100 miles offshore. Weather hampered searches as Lexington and Saratoga prepared to join.
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San Pedro
Calif
Santa Barbara
San Diego
Naval
Seth P. Hawkins
Chicago
Pacific
J. H. Mack, Jr
Hawkins
Alva D. Bernhard
Ernest J. King
Coast Guard
Lexington
Saratoga
Long Beach
Patrol Wing 1
Airliner Lands In Jersey Swamp After Flight
An American Airlines transport airliner carrying five passengers and three crew forced a rough landing in a Jersey swamp after undershooting Newark airport during a storm. Pilot Asher Rousch of Chicago led a rescue party to safety. he suffered a cut above the eye but all aboard were unharmed.
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Newark
N. 3
American Airlines
Asher Rousch
Chicago
Rousch
Dynamite blast kills three children in Tennessee home
In Elizabethtown Tennessee a dynamite explosion destroyed a house killing Sonia Gouge nine Luena Gouge seven and Roma Jean Gouge five and critically injuring their mother Harman Gouge thirty four. The father Harmon Gouge thirty five was in Johnson City at the time. Police investigate possible link to a 1936 slaying. A woman and three men were questioned.
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Elizabethtown
Tenn
Roy Asher
Sonia Gouge
Luena Gouge
Roma Jean Gouge
Harmon Gouge
Johnson City
Wall Street Dealings Start Slow In New York
New York traders saw modest rally momentum but profit taking after Thursday's surge limited gains. Early declines narrowed and even turned to advances as the market opened and activity remained muted into midmorning. Sterling rose to 3.00 1 16 dollars.
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New York
Sterling
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